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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚
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Professor in Film History, Uni of Exeter, UK. Research: #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines. #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬Project Lead @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
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Not only Doing Women’s Film History, but Making Women’s Film History! Look at this amazing tote, feat. British Women Film Directors designed and crafted by the fabulous @feministbell.bsky.social So creative!
#DWFTH7
June 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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What a fabulous few days at #DWFTH7 in Lincoln.

As always I learned so much from the brilliant work presented and the positive energy of the #WFTHN It is a difficult time in HE but the values practiced here offered a lift

Big thanks to Hannah, Jeongmee & organising team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

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Hannah Andrews and Jeongmee Kim offer closing remarks at the Doing Women’s Film and Television History Conference at the University of Lincoln
June 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#Filmhistory researchers!

Do apply for a stipend to visit and research in the amazing collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the Uni of Exeter, UK. Deadline 31/01/25

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Image depicts a items illustrating the range of holdings at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. These include: a film programme, a sterescope view, a fan magazine, a magic lantern slide and a postcard.
January 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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My final & very ‘on brand’ choice. I enjoyed seeing others choices too.

#BookChallenge Day 20/20
#Booksky 📚
#FilmSky
#FilmHistory
#AltText
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover of “The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production” by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson. The cover background is silver-grey with two inset black and white pictures of movie workers. One depicts an editor holding a strip of film up to the light, the other depicts a scene being staged with lighting crew arranging the lights over a couple reclining.
December 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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End of term is making me run behind.. but
#BookChallenge Day 19
#Booksky 📚
#FilmSky
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover of “Women in Film Noir: New Edition” edited by E Ann Kaplan. The cover has a film still from ‘Secret Beyond the Door’ directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1948. The image depicts Joan Bennett standing in front of a large door, which is at a canted angle. She wears a light jersey top and a full length skirt with a jacquard pattern, cinched in at the waist. She looks fearfully offscreen to the left. The image is black and white with a pink wash over it.
December 13, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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#BookChallenge Day 18
#Booksky 📚
#FilmSky
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover image of “Film As Film” by Victor Perkins. The background is a cream colour and the text of the title is in red at the top of the cover. In the centre of the cover is an image of a film strip with three frames, each showing a still from a film.
December 10, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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#BookChallenge Day 17
#Booksky 📚
#FilmSky
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🎥 #FilmNoir
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover image of “More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts” by James Naremore. The background of the cover is styled like a shot from a classic 1940s crime film. In the foreground, to the right hand side of the frame is a silhouette of a man wearing a trilby hat and a dark coat. He has his back to us and is facing down a dingy corridor towards a patch of light. The image is rendered in black, deep blue and soft grey. The title of the book is to the left of the cover and the author’s name is beneath the title.
December 9, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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#BookChallenge Day 16
#Booksky 📚
#FilmSky
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🧶🪡 #knitting #craftiverse
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover image of “The Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework”. The cover lists the needle crafts that the book incorporates: “ Embroidery Quilting Rug-making Patchwork Knitting Macramé Applique Crochet” Against the white background of the cover depicts a a crochet hook and an embroidery needle, embroidery hoop with some embroidered stitches, and embroidery thread in colours of pale yellow, azure blue, rose, teal blue, peach and pale green.
December 8, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Bookchallenge Day 15
#Booksky 📚
#FilmSky
#AltText

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover image of “Cinema and Spectatorship” by Judith Mayne. The background of the cover has a still from the film “The Old Maid” (directed by Edmund Goulding for Warner Bros. Studio and released in 1939). The still depicts a medium shot of Delia (played by Miriam Hopkins) and Charlotte (played by Bette Davis), the image is on a sepia tone. They stand on a staircase, Delia is on the left and a few steps above Charlotte. Delia looks intently at Charlotte. Charlotte’s gaze is directed down. The book title is just above the centre of the image and is in scarlet red text.
December 6, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Bookchallenge Day 14
#Booksky 📚
#AltText

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover of “Genre and Hollywood” by Steve Neale. The cover has a graphic design, three quarters of it have black background, the lower left corner is a dark brown. At the centre of the cover are images reproducing two film posters, for All Quiet on the Western Front and The Greatest Show in Earth. At the centre of the cover is the book’s title in orange and dark red text, and at the bottom is the author’s name.
December 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Bookchallenge Day 13
#Booksky 📚
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Cover of “Man Made Language” by Dale Spender. The cover is white, the text of Dale Spender’s name is a deep purple shade and with a simple graphic design, a circle around “SP”, the first 2 letters of her surname. Her name is a third of the way down the cover, the title is at the bottom of the cover. At the top of the cover, in small text is a review, which reads: “I have to admit that she has a point in this clever, lively, entertaining book. Philip Howard, The Times.”
December 3, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Bookchallenge Day 12
#Booksky 📚
#AltText

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of “The Collected Dorothy Parker”. The cover image shows a black and white close up photograph of Dorothy Parker, from era of the 1920s, she looks downwards and had a somewhat pensive expression. The photc is credited to the Bettmann Archive.
December 1, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 11
#Booksky 📚
#PoetrySky #AltText

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of Rapture, the poetry collection by Carol Ann Duffy. The cover image depicts a double bed with bed linen disarrayed. On the wall next to the bed light falls from a window opposite. The image is shot with a warm pink filter. At the tops of the cover, text reads: “Winner of the 2005 T S Elliot Prize” at the bottom of the c, text reproduces a review “Brilliant, beautiful and heart-aching” The Times.
November 30, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 10
#Booksky 📚
#Filmsky #Archivesky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of “Reclaiming the Archive:Feminism and Film History” edited by Vicki Callahan. The cover has a large, black and white image of film director Lois Weber with actress Billie Dove on the set of ‘The Marriage Clause’ (1926). Dove has her arm around Weber, the women smile at each other.
November 29, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 9
#Booksky 📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of “Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music” by Claudia Gorman. The cover has a graphic design of a sheet of with black notes on a green background. A silhouette of a conductor and orchestra is at the bottom of the cover.
November 28, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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#NoirvemberChallenge Day 27
Favorite #FilmNoir Fashion

Can’t resist sharing my latest essay ‘Designing the Notorious Woman’ on #EdithHead costume design for #Notorious

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#femmefatale #hitchcock
Image from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Notorious, depicting Alicia (played by Ingrid Bergman) wearing a dark column evening dress with a belt styled like a chain. She is in her husband’s dressing room and is reaching for a key from his key chain, taking it without his knowledge. The costume design for the film was done by Edith Head
November 27, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Brilliant research roundtable event today in my dept, organised by @andreamedrado.bsky.social of @exetercomms.bsky.social

Theme: “Artificial and Non-Human Intelligence – Controversies, Anxieties and Possibilities”

Speakers tagged below 👇🏻
Picture of members of Exeter University dept of Communications, Drama and Film sitting in a drama studio discussing AI. Andrea Medrado, Patrick Gildersleve, Brett Zehner, Gabriella Giannachi, Akriti Rastogi, Tony Liddington and Aditya Deshbanshu
November 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 8
#Booksky 📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of Richard Dyer’s book “White”. The cover is white with the title cut out, behind it a reproduction of Botticelli’s painting’The Birth of Venus’ shows through.
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 7
#Booksky 📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of Roland Barthes book “Mythologies”. The picture combines a montage of images about the objects and topics Barthes writes about the book, such as the face of film star Greta Garbo, a citröen car, a box of persil washing powder. The background of the cover is black.
November 26, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 6
#Booksky 📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of “Home Is Where The Heart Is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film” edited by Christine Gledhill published in 1987. The cover has a black background and the title is at the top of the cover in white text with a violet shadow. In the centre of the cover is an image from the film “Now Voyager” (released 1942), depicting the lead characters Charlotte Vale (played by Bette Davis) and Jerry Durrance (played by Paul Henreid). They are standing on a balcony, the sea and palm trees are in the background. It is nighttime, they are looking at each other as they talk and each smoke a cigarette. Charlotte wears white pyjamas and a white robe, Jerry wears trousers and a shirt. It is a scene of longing between them.
November 25, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 5
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of Carolyn Keene’s novel “Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase” it depicts a young woman holding a torch and shining it forward and up a dimly lit staircase. She looks purposefully upwards and is taking the first step up the stairs. She wears a blue skirt and pale blue blouse.
November 24, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Film still from “It’s a Wonderful Life” showing Mr Potter played by Lionel Barrymore sitting behind a large desk and lighting a cigar for George Bailey played by James Stewart. The image is in black and white.
November 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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#Bookchallenge Day 4

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of the children’s book “The Tiger Who Came To Tea” written and illustrated by Judith Kerr. The cover background is white, there is an illustration of small girl and a large tiger having tea together at a table. The Fiona’s long blonde hair tied back with a blue ribbon. She wears a purple pinafore dress with a blue top underneath and purple and white harlequin patterned tights. She holds a cup in front of her. She looks up to the tiger, sitting on her left, and smiles. The tiger looks down at the girl with a friendly expression.
November 23, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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#Bookchallenge Day 3

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Picture of the cover of Michel Chion’s book ‘Audio-Vision Sound On Screen’ 1994. The cover is azure blue with the title in yellow and white text. The background of the cover shows a film image from David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977), it depicts lead actor Jack Nance in close up with a startled expression.
November 22, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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#BookChallenge Day 2

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of How To Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ, white cover with red and black text: the text suggests the many ways that women’s authorship has been denied or minimised in cultural history. Text copied here: ‘She didn’t write it. (But if it’s clear she did the deed… ) She wrote it but she shouldn’t have (It’s political, sexual, masculine, feminist) She wrote it but look what she wrote about (the bedroom, the kitchen, her family, other women!) She wrote it, but she wrote only one of it.(“Jane Eyre. Poor dear, that's all she ever ...") She wrote it, but she isn't really an artist, and it isn’t really art (It's a thriller, a romance, a children’s book. It’s sci Fi!) She wrote it, but she had help. (Robert Browning, Branwell Brönte, her own “masculine side”.) She wrote it, but she’s an anomaly (Woolf. With Leonard's help) She wrote it BUT…’
November 21, 2024 at 10:17 AM